gally
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it's best no to be rash; sticking disna gang by strength, but by the guiding o' the gally.
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
I'd a soon be a gally slave, as lead the life she did!
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
Lord zur! an why d'ye bring en here To gally âll tha people?
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
He is to write to us first—God knows when!—for he said that if we didn’t hear from him for six months we were not to be gallied at all.’
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
No mistake, Moore looked a bit gallied on it; an' he hum'd an' ha'd, an' threatened to brain Tregarvis if he laid a hand on the hide.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think.
From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
Getting away in good style, we had barely got the sails up, when something gallied the school.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
"Talk of 'em to-morrow," said Ann; "you've gallied your brains enough for fifty fathers."
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson
